Ted Cruz Attempts to Parlay Obstructionism Into Campaign Asset

[Judi Lynn]

Contrarian Virtue
Ted Cruz Attempts to Parlay Obstructionism Into Campaign Asset

Apr 1, 2015 4:00 AM CDT

Most presidential candidates run on what they’ve accomplished. Senator Ted Cruz, on the other hand, plans to tout his efforts in keeping laws from being passed.

The Texas lawmaker gained notoriety for helping shut down the government in 2013 in an attempt to defund Obamacare. Now, Cruz plans to argue that he also played a pivotal role in rallying Republicans against a Senate compromise on immigration policy and quashing a bipartisan bill to expand firearms background checks, according to his advisers.

All the Republican senators expected to run for president, including Cruz, Marco Rubio of Florida and Rand Paul of Kentucky, will find it difficult to run on their records in a U.S. Senate that was one of the least productive in history. Cruz, however, plans to own the obstructionist label.

“Cruz’s record is almost unmitigated in obstructing,” making him unique among modern presidential candidates, said Larry Jacobs, a presidential historian at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute. He is “lauding his ability to bring dysfunction to Congress. I can’t recall any candidate bragging about that.”

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http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-04-01/ted-cruz-attempts-to-parlay-obstructionism-into-campaign-asset

[DetlefK]

1. Senator Cruz, will you keep up that good work when you are in the Oval Office?

[world wide wally]

2. Candidates used to run for public office by trying to be the most "reasonable" candidate...

Now it's the most extreme.
Whatever happened to "taking our country back", Republicans?

Oh yeah. That was just more bullshit

[libdem4life]

3. It's worked out well for him, thus far. As he sloshes into the national campaign, he'll experience

the difference between being a talking head for a backward state, and the magnifying glass of the national press. I, for one, look forward to watching it.